Uber has hired the former US attorney general Eric Holder to investigate allegations of sexual harassment after an engineer went public with claims that she repeatedly faced sexism and discrimination at the ride-sharing company.In a staff email shared with the Guardian on Monday, Uber’s CEO, Travis ...

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....Uber’s London experience holds an important lesson for Silicon Valley startups that take pride in asking for forgiveness rather than permission. As digital technologies continue to permeate our physical world lives, platforms such as Uber, Airbnb and Facebook will increasingly be called upon to take on regulatory roles that government used to perform. ...